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No. 3 UConn Travels to No. 25 Tennessee Thursday
1/20/2021 7:48:00 PM | Women's Basketball
STORRS, Conn. – For the first time since 2006, the No. 3 UConn women's basketball team (8-0) travels to No. 25 Tennessee (9-2) in the second year of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Revival Series Thursday. The teams will tip at 7 p.m. on ESPN and 97-9 ESPN.
UConn is 14-9 all-time vs. Tennessee. Last season the teams met for the first time in 13 years in Hartford, with the Huskies posting a 60-45 win.
The Huskies are coming off a 103-35 win over Butler on Tuesday. All five of UConn's starters scored in double digits vs. the Bulldogs: Olivia Nelson-Ododa (18), Christyn Williams (17), Aubrey Griffin (17), Evina Westbrook (14) and Paige Bueckers (13). Griffin made her first career start Tuesday.
With the win Tuesday, head coach Geno Auriemma reached 1,099 career wins, moving past legendary Tennessee coach Pat Summitt for No. 2 all-time among NCAA women's basketball coaches. Auriemma is set to become the second women's basketball coach to reach 1,100 career wins.
Class of 2021 signee Saylor Poffenbarger enrolled for the spring semester and will join the UConn women's basketball team early. After completing a medical quarantine, Poffenbarger will be eligible to compete this season. She will have four more years of eligibility as all winter sport athletes were granted an extra year by the NCAA. A 6-foot-2 guard, Poffenbarger is the 30th-ranked recruit in her class. She won gold with USA Basketball at the 2019 FIBA Americas U16 Championship.
On Wednesday, UConn announced the addition of a non-conference game at No. 15 Arkansas on Thursday, Jan. 28. The teams will tip at 5 p.m. ET on ESPN2.
